Branches to patches

[Teemu Ikonen]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:42 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:
> also sprach Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at gmail.com> [2008.08.21.1610 +0100]:
>> I already have, but TopGit does not really solve the same problem,
>> namely serializing a set of possibly conflicting heads with the end
>> result being identical to the state of an integration branch. At least
>> it does not do this automatically without the need to create extra
>> merged bases.
>
> But it does so automatically, and I have been talking to Petr about
> adding support for temporary merge bases in case you only want
> one-time integration of a set of branches (as for distro packaging,
> for instance).

Ok, after reading the documentation again this seems to be the case.

So my integration (or debian) branch should be a TopGit branch which
depends on all the applied feature branches + upstream, and I should
do the conflict resolution when the base for it is merged?

>> Also, is there a trick to get the "ours" merge strategy used in
>> .top* -files to work with octopus merge?
>
> It is my understanding that the ours strategy works with any number
> of heads, so it should work fine with the octopus merge. This is
> what the git-merge(1) manpage has to say about it:
>
>  This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the merge is
>  always the current branch head.

When I'm trying to an octopus merge, git fails on the .top* files.
When merging in one branch at a time the ours strategy works fine. But
maybe I'm using an old version of git.

Teemu